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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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"The Innocent Sleep" by Seanan McGuire
    https://www.amazon.com/Innocent-Sleep-Seanan-McGuire/dp/0756416817/

Book number eighteen of an eighteen book dark fantasy "October Daye" 
series.  I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by DAW in 
2024.  I will buy future October Daye stories when the MMPBs are released.

Many hundreds of years ago, the many of the fae left a far off land and 
landed on what would become the west coast of the United States.  There 
they built their realms and fought their wars, both on the land and the 
sea.  The humans do not know of their realms and their travels but, 
humans do not see everything.  This is the fae's story.

In the beginning there was the Three of the fae.  Oberon, the King of 
the fae and his two Queen sister wives: Maeve and Titania.  All of the 
fae are descended from them, both together and singly.  They are the 
most powerful, way more powerful than their children, the Firstborn. All 
three of the first are missing and have not been seen in hundreds of 
years.  But Luidaeg, the Firstborn sea witch, has been dragging an old 
man around everywhere she goes.

Before Oberon disappeared, he put a gaes on Titania to stop killing 
their descendants.  Titania had grown jealous and heartless, and was 
encouraging her children and their children to kill Maeve's children and 
their children.  Titania had succeeded in genociding entire races like 
the Luidaeg's Roane.

October and her older sister August are being raised by their pureblood 
father Simon Torquille and mother Amandine in a large stone tower in the 
Faerie.  October's real father is a human so she is a changeling, looked 
down upon and often killed without reason by the purebloods.  But 
October is protected by other purebloods by August and Simon.  October 
is looking forward to August leaving so she can go with her, still 
protected.

But everything is a lie.

Book number seventeen is this story written from October Daye's 
perspective.  Book number eighteen is this story from Tybalt's 
perspective.  They both end the same way.

Please note that although the author and I share the same middle and
last names, I do not know if we are related.  We are McGuire's, there
are many of us.  I paid for my book and all of the books that I own
written by her.

There is a wiki for the October Daye books at:
    https://october-daye.fandom.com/wiki/October_Daye_Wiki

The author has a website at:
    https://www.seananmcguire.com/

My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (909 reviews)

Lynn